linux-kernel - Re: [v2 PATCH 1/2] mm: gup: fix the fast GUP race against THP collapse

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Date:   Wed, 7 Sep 2022 14:23:48 -0700
From:   Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     david@...hat.com, peterx@...hat.com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, jhubbard@...dia.com,
        jgg@...dia.com, hughd@...gle.com, aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH 1/2] mm: gup: fix the fast GUP race against THP collapse

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 2:22 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed,  7 Sep 2022 11:01:43 -0700 Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > Since general RCU GUP fast was introduced in commit 2667f50e8b81 ("mm:
> > introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast()"), a TLB flush is no longer
> > sufficient to handle concurrent GUP-fast in all cases, it only handles
> > traditional IPI-based GUP-fast correctly.  On architectures that send
> > an IPI broadcast on TLB flush, it works as expected.  But on the
> > architectures that do not use IPI to broadcast TLB flush, it may have
> > the below race:
> >
> >    CPU A                                          CPU B
> > THP collapse                                     fast GUP
> >                                               gup_pmd_range() <-- see valid pmd
> >                                                   gup_pte_range() <-- work on pte
> > pmdp_collapse_flush() <-- clear pmd and flush
> > __collapse_huge_page_isolate()
> >     check page pinned <-- before GUP bump refcount
> >                                                       pin the page
> >                                                       check PTE <-- no change
> > __collapse_huge_page_copy()
> >     copy data to huge page
> >     ptep_clear()
> > install huge pmd for the huge page
> >                                                       return the stale page
> > discard the stale page
> >
> > The race could be fixed by checking whether PMD is changed or not after
> > taking the page pin in fast GUP, just like what it does for PTE.  If the
> > PMD is changed it means there may be parallel THP collapse, so GUP
> > should back off.
> >
> > Also update the stale comment about serializing against fast GUP in
> > khugepaged.
> >
> > Fixes: 2667f50e8b81 ("mm: introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast()")
>
> Is this not worth a -stable backport?

Yes, I think it is.